From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 11:15:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07627 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07614 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA14273; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:16:02 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:16:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: pysar@trentu.ca cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <9606021839.AA20904@blaze.trentu.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Jun 1996 pysar@trentu.ca wrote: > > Hi, I will be getting a new computer in the next few days (a p100) and I want > to install Free BSD on it. I am pretty sure that this computer will come with > DOS installed already. I know that I can DEFRAG my hard disk and then > install Free BSD on the free partition but I was wondering how much room > I should allocate for Free BSD. My HDD will be 1.2 GB and I want to have > X-Windows installed and later on I'll be installing some programming > languages and then I want to have the rest free for DOS and WIN95 stuff. I would say 200-300MB, depending. A 540MB second disk is great in these situations. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major